This is why you don't poach a jump you don't know the speed for. Hopefully this guy is recovering and has learned some valuable lessons about watching before trying and physics.

The second installment of BAF TV. The crew hits the coast and does some sandboarding. 

Despite what you may have heard, the winter season is still going strong. This past week's consistent dumps have made Bachelor a pillowy playground again. We're well over our annual snowfall and it doesn't really look like mother nature has any plan of giving up soon. So strap on your foot planks and shred sticks and come get some. Bachelor even has some sweet spring discounts $129 for the rest of the year and $99 after April 20.

Much like the great American ground hog Ari will hide himself behind trees until spring has sprung. Looks like six more weeks of winter...  I hate point and shoot lag.

    What started out as a way for some friends in the snowboard industry to share stories photos and inappropriate content, has morphed itself into an internet TV show on Volcom's "Stone Your TV."
    The underground website collaborates content from film makers, riders, and other bromosexuals with nothing better to do and puts it on the internet so they can publicly ridicule each other.
    Board as F... .com is not an age appropriate site and can contain nudity, male or otherwise and adult situations, and by that I mean adult beverage situations.
 

   Check out episode one of Board as F@ck tv as Curtis Ciszek, Alex Lopez, Tyler Scharpf and friends kick off a surf shred  road trip with a day on Bachelor.

    This past weekend (Feb 27-Mar 1) Mt. Bachelor was crowded with numbered bibs as the mountain played host to the High Cascade Snowboard Camp Enter the Dragon series, the 46th annual MBSEF Sun Cup, the Phoenix Inn High School Reunion nordic race, and the SOS outreach, providing free gear and lessons to underprivileged kids in our area.
    If that sounds like a mouthful it was nothing compared to the bedlam on the hill. The Pine Martin and Skyliner lifts, where the weekend events took place, were packed with skin tight racing suits and kids in comically oversized jackets and pants.

The Special Olympics and Dragon events took place on adjacent runs. A study in contrast, one group spinning through the slopestyle course, the other just making turns thought their slalom gates, the two on the surface couldn't be more different, that is until you see the smiles at the bottom. Whatever differences may exist are overshadowed by the realization that the joy, the stoke is the same. 

    Days like today don't come around often. The circumstances leading to bottomless days with nothing but blue sky only come along a few times a year, if at all.
    These days validate us, at least our reasoning behind strapping a stick to our feet and sliding downhill. The early mornings, the injuries, the thousands and thousands of dollars spent over the years are all justified by these perfect days.
    As the day wore on our legs wore out from the hot laps on the backside. The powder fields became moguls and the sun dipped behind the mountain. Driving home the clouds rolled in and covered Mt. Bachelor's peak, the beginning of another storm.

Guy Olson lays into a slash on the backside 

    On Friday night The Poet House hosted an art auction to raise money for the construction of the Division Street Skate Park.
    The donation only event was a silent auction for skate decks painted, heat transferred, screen-printed, photo emulsified and developed, and a myriad of other mixed media art.
    As the drinks went down and the crowd got loose the bidding on a few of the skate decks heated up.
    One deck in particular, a Burning Man contraption driving through the Deschutes National Forrest painted by Adam Haynes, skyrocketed from a few hundred dollars to over $600, finally ending at an even $1000.
    Check out www.divisionstreetskatepark.org for more info on the project and to donate.

$1000 skate deck "The Caddyshack"

Future site of the  Divistion Street Skate Park.

    Mt. Bachelor eclipsed 100 inches of base depth with the snowfall last night. Like every year, the milestone is celebrated by raffling off swag and giving away pint glasses.
    A healthy crowd showed up at the bar in hopes of taking home free crap to sell on ebay. It actually wasn't all crap. They had some big ticket items (aka snowboard and skis) saved for the end.
    The one problem with a party based on snow depth is that inevitably there is fresh powder that day. While I listened to the MC Alex Kaufman raffle off swag and admired the bottom of my pint glass my eyes were being drawn to the hill, mostly just wanting to be back out there.

Swagmaster Alex 

    Lets face it we're all getting strapped for cash. Still there's nothing worse than a long day in the mountains and coming home to a house sans food, piecing together some farce of a meal from a packet of ramen a week old hot dog and a carrot.
    So as my gift to you I have rated my top 5 post-shred cheap eats.

#1 The Taco Stand
    The Taco Stand is an institution in Bend. They've been wrapping delicious burritos for years, decades even, and are still the best deal in town.
    A restaurant only open until 4 p.m. might fly under most people's radar for after mountain food, but the $2.50 bean rice and cheese and delicious daily specials are worth calling it a day a little early.

#2 Inn of the 7th Mountain
    They say there's no such thing as a free lunch. That may be true, but when you're looking for some post mountain munch there is free chili. The Inn's Rimrock Bar offers complimentary chili chips and cheese during it's après ski hours (3-6).
    An added bonus is the resort's participation in the Mt. Bachelor "Flash Your Pass" promotions. A season's pass will get you 20% off anything.

#3 Parilla
    One dollar Pabst pounders. Two dollar tacos. The possibility of live music. Need I say more, because I will... Pitchers of margaritas.

#4 Pizza Mondo
    I once got in an argument with some dude at Sidelines over beer and pizza. He claimed the two weren't a good combo. I think we can all agree the guy was an idiot. Or I was the idiot for arguing with him. Either way Mondo still has a killer after mountain slice and brew special.
    The downtown location is also a plus so you can hang out in your snowpants and boots and show everyone how cool you are.

#5 Ray's Deli
    Ray's has a special place in my heart. Not for having the only Westside liquor store, not for the cornucopia of choices, or for their bulk food/free sample aisle, but for their bagel sandwiches and cheap coffee.
    Sandwich and coffee for under $4. Yes please.
 

We've finally been graced with a little snow fall in the mountains. The high pressure system that sat over our area for a month has dispersed and now we have some storm systems lined up across the North Pacific. Look forward to a nice snowy February. 

If you're planning on venturing into the backcountry, do so with caution. The solid sheet of ice we have makes for a very unstable layer. Avalanche danger will be high.